Curatorial team Biennale 2026
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We are happy to announce that the 2026 edition of the State of Fashion Biennale will be curated by the talented trio Anne Zhou Anouchka van Driel and Shanu Walpita! Carefully selected through our Open Call for Curators, these three visionary curators will shape the next chapter of the Biennale. With their unique perspectives and creative energy, they promise to deliver an inspiring edition that will once again challenge and redefine the boundaries of fashion, textiles and culture.
The working title of their proposal, Available to Promise —drawn from supply chain logistics—frames the curatorial approach for the State of Fashion biennale 2026. It reflects the predictive systems and logistical rhythms that drive fashion’s global operations—where demand is anticipated, scarcity is staged, and movement is orchestrated. Against this backdrop, the biennale examines how promises are made, extracted, and performed across bodies, lands, and networks, and asks what futures emerge when fashion is no longer seen as a seamless extension of technology, but as a site of entangled, living systems.
Meet the Curators
Anne Zhou
Anne Zhou (she/her) is a maker, curator, and educator based in London. With a background in architecture and design curation, her work explores the relationship between people, culture, and the built environment, focusing on how physical and mental well-being are embedded in space and objects. She has contributed to a wide range of projects, from large-scale institutional exhibitions to independent initiatives.
Anouchka van Driel
Anouchka van Driel (she/he) is an independent curator, project manager and editor, currently based in the Netherlands. Her work moves effortlessly between the worlds of design, fashion, architecture and fine art, driven by a transdisciplinary approach and a strong sense of context and place. With nearly two decades of experience in China, she realises exhibitions, events and multimedia projects that encourage cultural exchange and create space for different creative practices.
Shanu Walpita
Shanu Walpita (she/her) is a London-based educator, curator and foresight director. She describes herself as a connector – proposing futures, near and far, that are aligned through value, purpose, innovation and community. Her practice explores themes of identity, technology, lore/hype and (new) protocols of fashion/culture.